Word: fifth
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Baldwin could be generous: in 1919 he gave $600,000, one-fifth of his personal fortune, to the state, to convince other rich men "that love of country is better than love of money." He could be generous, at the right moment, to political enemies: when his Tory followers demanded anti-trade-union legislation in 1925, he came out against it, with a Baldwinian peroration: "Give us peace in our time, O Lord...
...nine of his waiters told the board that he had bounced them for joining a union; 2½ years later, the state court of appeals bounced them back to Billingsley, told him to cough up back pay. Four of last week's six witnesses had been fired, a fifth had quit, the sixth had been suspended...
...Henry J. (Bob) Topping Jr. for becoming newest (and fifth) husband of Cinemactress Arline Judge...
...Burt McGuire Jr., Manhattan playboy, for becoming the fifth husband of Lillian Roth, former Ziegfeld star and subject of articles on how she conquered alcohol...
Patient B.H., 65, had a cancer of the esophagus. He could swallow no solid food. After the fifth injection, he ate a chicken dinner...